Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, guys, not the answers I was hoping for, but it's reassuring to know that I'm not 
the only one having these problems. I had only bought a single eboni pre-filled and some 
EEM to try this out, and now I'm glad I did it this way.  

Sound like a new printer is in order, so I'll wait a few weeks and see how the new Epsons 
look...

-b




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bradley_w01" 
<bradleywakoff@h...> wrote:
> I've decided to try BO printing with Eboni ink in an old 825 before committing my 
workhorse 
> 1280 to the cause.  My understanding was that the print heads in the 825 and 1280 are 
the 
> same (they use the same black dye ink cart).   
> 
> In all fairness, the 825 has had a tough life and even with OEM dye inks is a little prone 
to 
> clogging.  The printer is totally unreliable with the eboni ink, though.  I can run four 
> consecutive nozzle checks and get four different results; rarely is one of them perfect.  
> Running a cleaning cycle usually gets a good nozzle check immediately afterward, but 
the 
> second nozzle check is flawed (missing at least one line segment).  All the prints I've 
made so 
> far show banding.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> thanks!
> -brad